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The Government’s Building Digital UK<\/a> (BDUK) team, which is part of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & and Sport (DCMS) and has responsibility for delivering broadband networks across the nation (e.g. the \u00a35bn Project Gigabit<\/a> rollout scheme), is to become an Executive Agency from April 2022.<\/p>\n

The move will essentially give BDUK more operational autonomy to focus on deploying Project Gigabit, as well as the \u00a31bn Shared Rural Network<\/a> (SRN) programme to improve rural 4G<\/a> mobile coverage. As part of this, BDUK will adopt a new corporate governance structure, including a new board, which will incorporate a non-executive chair, executive members and non-executive members (i.e. an extra layer of scrutiny and technical oversight).<\/p>\n

However, BDUK will still remain legally within DCMS and retain a close relationship with DCMS policy officials. Apparently, administration costs for the new Executive Agency have also been minimised by “identifying where shared services can be delivered within DCMS<\/em>” (part of the Shared Services Strategy) and delivering more streamlined services that maximise value for money.<\/p>\n

The Government also said it would “bring the agency closer to the communities it is benefitting<\/em>,” which you might assume would mean placing it in a more rural location – as that’s the primary focus of both Project Gigabit and the SRN, but.. you’d be wrong. Instead, they’ll be setting up a head office in Central Manchester to “boost the city’s credentials as a fast-growing digital tech hub<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

Julia Lopez MP, Digital Infrastructure Minister, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We are on a mission to make sure everyone can get faster broadband speeds and reap the benefits of internet-fuelled innovations in the coming decades.<\/p>\n

We are moving fast and national gigabit-speed broadband coverage has jumped from six per cent to sixty per cent in just two years.<\/p>\n

As part of the biggest broadband build in British history we are now giving BDUK greater freedom and flexibility to ramp up rollout and expand its operations to create new jobs, boost economic growth and level up communities in need.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Executive Agencies were first established in 1988 to allow the delivery of executive functions of government to be carried out separately from – but within a policy and resources framework set by – a primarily policy-focused department.<\/p>\n

We suspect that this may, in part, reflect the need for BDUK to expand their resources (e.g. staffing) in order to help them cope with the large number of procurements involved with Project Gigabit and its associated voucher schemes. The long procurement timescales currently being listed for later phases of Project Gigabit may thus offer some indication of why this change is necessary.<\/p>\n

In addition, BDUK involves quite a lot of highly technical and specialist work, which is another area that might benefit from giving BDUK a greater say in policy development, albeit not so much that it would impact overarching Government policy. In many ways, we’re actually a little surprised that they didn’t do this earlier.<\/p>\n

The government has so far identified up to 2.5 million hard-to-reach homes and businesses in scope of Project Gigabit across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and is in the process of identifying more (i.e. those within the final 20% of premises that may not benefit from commercial FTTP<\/a> builds etc.).<\/p>\n

The first contracts under this (i.e. part of Phases 1 and 2) are expected to be awarded around mid-2022 (build will follow toward late 2022 \/ early 2023), but other areas may have to wait years longer before they reach this stage. For example, Northern North Yorkshire, under Phase 3<\/a><\/strong>, won’t see contract commencement until after mid-2024 and there are more phases yet to even be unveiled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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